When the cameras are rolling, Dr. Phil is a master at handling conflict. He wades right in and isn’t afraid to duke it out with unruly guests. Dr. Phil also loves to battle the tabloids and has the lawsuit settlements to prove it. However, it’s a different story when it comes to his marriage. Because, unlike pretty much every other married couple, Robin McGraw insists that she and Dr. Phil never fight, which even her closest friends find weird.
“People cannot understand when we say we don’t fight,” Robin told New You (via USA Today). “They go, ‘That’s just not natural, you’re lying! Couples fight.’ But we don’t fight.” In fact, they’ve never even raised their voice to each other. In another interview with New You, Robin explained that Dr. Phil’s dad regularly yelled at his mom, and the couple made a vow early on that they would never follow in his footsteps. “I told him, ‘I can’t live like that. It’s not natural for me,'” Robin shared. “He got it and has never raised his voice around me.”
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Dr. Phil shared their secret to keeping things battle-free in an interview with Us Weekly. “All couples fight and have disagreements, but we don’t have big blowups because we deal with things when they arise,” he said. “We don’t let it build up for a week, two weeks, three weeks…”
